Dec 31, 2021

THURSDAY, Dec. 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has issued a practice guideline update on oral and topical treatments for painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN); a summa...

Dec 29, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The appropriateness of strategies for managing cancer pain in individuals with advanced cancer and opioid use disorder (OUD) is addressed in a consensus st...

Dec 28, 2021

MONDAY, Dec. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- During the last decade, there has been a decline in total opioid morphine milligram equivalents (MME) per capita, according to a research letter published onl...

Dec 23, 2021

THURSDAY, Dec. 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The use of hyaluronic acid (HA) injections for knee osteoarthritis in Medicare beneficiaries increased substantially from 2012 to 2018, according to a study...

Dec 21, 2021

TUESDAY, Dec. 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Eight in 10 oncologists report frequently seeing mental health distress (mostly anxiety and mood disorders) in their patients with cancer, according to Oncol...

Dec 17, 2021

FRIDAY, Dec. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A protocol could identify candidates who do not require formal in-person psychological assessment for workup of neuromodulation therapies for pain, according ...

Dec 10, 2021

THURSDAY, Dec. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- About 12 percent of patients who filled an opioid prescription within 14 days of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) procedures have persistent opio...

Dec 10, 2021

FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and the American Academy of Pain Medicine charged a multinational, multispecialty panel of exper...

Dec 05, 2021

FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with symptomatic mild-to-moderate radiographic knee osteoarthritis (OA), intra-articular injections of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) do not significa...

Dec 05, 2021

FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Higher frequency cannabis use is more common among young and racial minority populations, and individuals with low socioeconomic status, according to a study p...

Dec 03, 2021

THURSDAY, Dec. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Women are underrepresented in senior leadership throughout the U.S. health system, according to a research letter published online Nov. 29 in JAMA Network Op...

Dec 02, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A settlement that gives protections to Sackler family members who own Purdue Pharma should be rejected, a group of states told a federal judge on Tuesday.Th...

Dec 01, 2021

Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS Professor of Medicine Medical Director of Endoscopy UCLA Health     Physician's Weekly recently spoke with Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS, Professor of Med...

Dec 01, 2021

TUESDAY, Nov. 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Few institutions have clear policies that specifically address sexual harassment from patients toward physicians and staff, according to a research letter pu...

Dec 01, 2021

TUESDAY, Nov. 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Smartphone-delivered wound follow-up increases the odds of surgical site infection (SSI) diagnosis within seven days after emergency abdominal surgery, accor...

Nov 18, 2021

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A three-dimensional (3-D) virtual reality system to treat back pain was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday. The EaseVRx system is...

Nov 18, 2021

THURSDAY, Nov. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Among patients with surgically managed orthopedic fractures, treatment of pain with strong opioid medication is not superior to milder medication, according...

Nov 17, 2021

TUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Almost one in five patients with cirrhosis receive opioid prescriptions during outpatient visits, according to a study presented at The Liver Meeting, the an...

Nov 17, 2021

TUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- From 2007 to 2019, there was an increase in baseline depressive symptoms among first-year resident physicians but a decrease in the average change in depress...

Nov 17, 2021

TUESDAY, Nov. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- From January through June 2021, 31.1 million people of all ages were uninsured (9.6 percent), which was not significantly different from 2020, according to e...